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Technical  and  Bibliographic  Notes/Notes  techniques  et  bibliographiques 


The  Institute  has  attempted  to  obtain  the  best 
original  copy  available  for  filming.  Features  of  this 
copy  which  may  be  bibliographically  unique, 
which  may  alter  any  of  the  images  in  the 
reproduction,  or  which  may  significantly  change 
the  usual  method  of  filming,  are  checked  below. 


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Coloured  covers/ 
Couverture  de  couleur 


I      I    Covers  damaged/ 


Couverture  endommagee 

Covers  restored  and/or  laminated/ 
Couverture  restaur^e  et/ou  pelliculde 


□    Cover  title  missing/ 
Le  titre  de  couverture  manque 

I      I    Coloured  maps/ 


Cartes  gdographiques  en  couleur 


Coloured  ink  (i.e.  other  than  blue  or  black)/ 
Encre  de  couleur  (i.e.  autre  que  bleue  ou  noire) 


Coloured  plates  and/or  illustrations/ 
Planches  et/ou  illustrations  en  couleur 

Bound  with  other  material/ 
Reli6  avec  d'autres  documents 

Tight  binding  may  cause  shadows  or  distortion 
along  interior  margin/ 

La  --eiiure  serr^e  peut  causer  de  I'ombre  ou  de  la 
distortion  le  long  de  la  marge  int^rieure 

Blank  leaves  added  during  restoration  may 
appear  within  the  text.  Whenever  possible,  these 
have  been  omitted  from  filming/ 
II  se  peut  que  certaines  pages  blanches  ajoutdes 
lors  d'une  restauration  apparaissent  dans  le  texte, 
mais,  lorsque  cela  dtait  possible,  ces  pages  n'ont 
pas  6t6  film^es. 


L'Institut  a  microfilmd  le  meilleur  exemplaire 
qu'il  lui  a  6t6  possible  de  se  procurer.  Les  details 
de  cet  exemplaire  qui  sont  pout-dtre  ungues  du 
point  de  vue  bibliographique,  qui  peuvent  modifier 
une  image  reproduite,  ou  qui  peuvent  exiger  une 
modification  dans  la  m6thode  normale  de  filmage 
sont  indiquds  ci-dessous. 


I      I    Coloured  pages/ 


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Pages  restaurdes  et/ou  pelliculdes 


Pages  discoloured,  stained  or  foxed/ 
Pages  ddcolordes,  tachetdes  ou  piqu6es 


□Pages  detached/ 
Pagt-':  d6tach6es 

nShowthiough/ 
Transparence 

I      I    Quality  of  print  varies/ 


Quality  in^gale  de  I'impression 

Includes  supplementary  material/ 
Comprend  du  materiel  supplementaire 


Only  edition  available/ 
Seule  Edition  disponible 

Pages  wholly  or  partially  obscured  by  errata 
slips,  tissues,  etc.,  have  been  refilmed  to 
ensure  the  best  possible  image/ 
Les  pages  totalement  ou  partiellement 
obscurcies  par  un  feuillet  d'errata,  une  pelure, 
etc.,  ont  6t6  filmdes  d  nouveau  de  fagon  d 
obtenir  la  meilleure  image  possible. 


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Commentaires  suppl^mentaires; 


This  item  is  filmed  at  the  reduction  ratio  checked  below/ 

Ce  document  est  film6  au  taux  de  reduction  indiqu6  ci-dessous. 

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The  copy  filmed  here  has  been  reproduced  thanks 
to  the  generosity  of: 

Nova  Scotia  Public  Archives 


L'exemplaire  filrn^  fut  reproduit  grSce  d  la 
g6n6rosit6  de: 

Nova  Scotia  Public  Archives 


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The  images  appearing  here  are  the  best  quality 
possible  considering  the  condition  and  legibility 
of  the  original  copy  and  in  keeping  with  the 
filming  contract  specifications. 


Les  images  suivantes  ont  6t6  reproduites  avec  le 
plus  grand  soin,  compte  tenu  de  la  condition  et 
de  la  nettetd  de  l'exemplaire  film6,  et  en 
conformity  avec  les  conditions  du  contrat  de 
filmage. 


Original  copies  in  printed  paper  covers  are  filmed 
beginning  with  the  front  cover  and  ending  on 
the  last  page  with  a  printed  or  illustrated  impres- 
sion, or  the  back  cover  when  appropriate.  All 
other  original  copies  are  filmed  beginning  on  the 
first  page  with  a  printed  or  illustrated  impres- 
sion, and  ending  on  the  last  page  with  a  printed 
or  illustrated  impression. 


Les  exemplaires  originaux  dont  la  couverture  en 
papier  est  imprim6e  sont  filmds  en  commenpant 
par  le  premier  plat  et  en  terminant  soit  par  la 
ddrnidre  page  qui  comporte  une  empreinte 
d'impression  ou  d'illustration,  soit  par  le  second 
plat,  selon  le  cas.  Tous  les  autres  exemplaires 
originaux  sont  film6s  en  commen9ant  par  la 
premiere  page  qui  comporte  une  empreinte 
d'impression  ou  d'illustration  et  en  terminant  par 
la  dernidre  page  qui  comporte  une  telle 
empreinte. 


The  last  recorded  frame  on  each  microfiche 
shall  contain  the  symbol  — ♦■  (meaning  "CON- 
TINUED"), or  the  symbol  V  (meaning  "END"), 
whichever  applies. 


Un  des  symboles  suivants  apparaitra  sur  la 
dernidre  image  de  chaque  microfiche,  selon  le 
cas:  le  symbole  —•»-  signifie  "A  SUIVRE",  le 
symbole  V  signifie  "FIN". 


Maps,  plates,  charts,  etc.,  may  be  filmed  at 
different  reduction  ratios.  Those  too  large  to  be 
entirely  included  in  one  exposure  are  filmed 
beginning  in  the  upper  left  hand  corner,  left  to 
right  and  top  to  bottom,  as  many  frames  as 
required.  The  following  diagrams  illustrate  the 
method: 


Les  cartes,  planches,  tableaux,  etc.,  peuvent  Stre 
filmds  d  des  taux  de  reduction  diff^rents. 
Lorsque  le  document  est  trop  grand  pour  etre 
reproduit  en  un  seul  cliche,  il  est  film6  d  partir 
de  Tangle  sup^rieur  gauche,  de  gauche  d  droite, 
et  de  haut  en  bas,  en  prenant  le  nombre 
d'images  n^cessaire.  Les  diagrammes  suivants 
illustrent  la  m^thode. 


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NOTES 


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DR.  WM.  DOUGLASS'S  ALMANACK     ^^ 


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THE  SUBJECT  OF  MEDICINE  IN  MASS:^CHUSETTS 


BEFORE  HIS  TIME. 


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SAMUEL  ABBOTT  GREEN,   M.D. 


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T)U.  ^VM.  DOUGLASS'S  ALMANACK. 


At  a  meeting  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical 
Society  held  on  l^mrsday,  Feb.  14,  1884,  Dr.  Samuel 
A.  Greex,  in  presenting  a  copy  of  WiHinin  Nadir's 
Ahnanack  for  tlie  year  1743,  spoke  as  follows  :  — 

This  ahiianac  has  l.een  in  the  possession  of  my  family  for 
several  generations,  and  it  is  only  recently  that  J  have  been 
enabled  to  identify  the  handwritintr  an(i  establish  beyond 
(lonbt  the  name  of  the  orijrinal  owner.  The  followincr  entry 
IS  made  nmong  the  notes,  under  date  of  March  2  :  —  *' 

"  Peter  Fatuiil  Es.f  dyo.l  of  :i  coinplioatioii  of  diseasos.  a  very  fat 
s(iimt  mail,  it  has  hiii  KxcM-etling  cl.arital)le  amogst  us,  and  a  gi-eat  Loss 
Ml  tins  Jo\T."  ® 

Aj^ain,  under  date  of  March  10  :  ~ 

"  m  Peter  Faneuil  Esq'  burrie.l  a  very  Large  fmioral  went  roud  v" 
Town  house  gaue  us  gloucs  at  y''  funeral  hut  sent  y"  gloucs  on  y-  U 
day.  his  Cofin  couer[d]  w'"  black  velvet,  &  plated  w'"  y-jlow  plates."   ' 

In  the  first  volume  (pan:e  73)  of  the  Proceedin<rs,  it  is 
recorded  that  the  oift  of  -  A  MS.  Journal  of  a  Gentleman 
in  Boston,  from  the  year  1729  to  the  vear  1740,  from  Mr. 
Joshua  (ireen,"  was  made  to  this  Society  on  July  -JO,  17!»4 
The  person  presentin<r  it  was  my  <,n-eat-grandfather';  and 
with  the  laudable  curiosity  of  a  dutifui  descendant  I  set  about 
an  examination  of  tlie  manuscript,  which  consisted  of  three 
folio  volumes  made  up  mostly  of  items  about  the  weather 
There  are  entries  here  and  there  of  some  interest,  but  gener- 
ally they  are  of  a  meteorolojrieal  character.  All  the  internal 
evidence  goes  to  show  that  the  Journal  was  kept  bv  Henjamin 


4 


VViilkcr,  .Ir. ;  .iiitl  not  only  is  the  liiunlwritiiifj  identical  with 
that  in  the  almanac!,  hut  often  the  t'xjjressions  are  very  similar, 
leaving'  no  (loiii)t  that  it  was  Walker  who  made  the  marjj^inal 
notes.  He  rehsrs  as  follows  to  the  benefactor  of  tlu!  town  of 
lioston,  and  mentions  a  physical  peculiarity  not  j,'enerally 
known : — 

'•  Thursdiiy  .'5.  [March,  ITL'i.]  Peter  Fiiiiuil  Kscj'  between  2  ifc  o 
H  elock  ill  y''  altfriiooii  dyed  of  ji  diopsiciil  roinplyca,  lie  was  a  fat  .s(|iiat 
Ijaiiif  [man.]  lii|>  short  went  with  hi<;h  liet'ld  shoe  (In  my  opinion  a 
j^reat  loss  too  'I'his  Town  aifcd  \'l.  H  m)  &.  I  tliink  liy  wliat  I  liaiif 
hcar'd  lias  tloiu;  more  ('hnrital)le  d(;eds  than  any  man  y'  eiier  liv'd  in 
tiiis  Town  iV;  for  whom  I  am  very  sorry. 

"  ^laicii  10.  I'cler  Faiinil  Ks(|Miurried.  IJearers  Mess"  Tom  Leeh- 
mere  Josh.  Winslow  .Fn"  Whct-lwright  And.  Oliuer  .In"  Gooch  .In" 
WciidaM  went  round  y''  Town  house 

"Tiiiiisija  10.  IWirrird  IVicr  Kant-uil  Esci"^  in  43'!  year  of  age  a  fait 
(!ori»uh'n  lirowii  sipiat  man  hip  short  lame  fro  childhood." 

Benjamin  Walker,  dr.,  the  writer  of  this  Journal,  was  the 
son  of  IJeiijamiii  ami  I'alsorave  Walker,  and  horn  in  Boston 
on  Jan.  lid,  1071>-8().  He  was  a  shopkeeper,  and  associated  i 
business  with  his  younoer  brother  John.  His  lamily  is  men- 
tioned in  Sewall's  Diary  (vol.  iii.  pj).  oTl,  •"•Tii) ;  and  additional 
facts  concerning  it  an^  given  in  "The  N(!W  ICnglaiid  Histori- 
cal cind  (JcMiealogical  Uegister  "  (vol.  xv.  pp.  ;>),  od).  I  have 
but  little  doubt  that  he  was  a  kinsman  of  Isaac  Walker,  the 
partner  of  my  great-great-grandfather,  Joshua  Green,  and  that 
these  papers  came  through  this  mercantile  coimection.  Their 
firm  were  extensive  owners  in  a  tract  of  land,  known  as  "  the 
(ireen  and  Walker  grant,"  and  comprising  a  large  part  of 
the  present  towns  of  Heath  and  [{owe,  in  Franklin  County 
of  this  State.*  The  sons  of  these  partners,  Joshua  (Jreen,  Jr., 
and  Edward  AValker,  after  the  dissolution  of  their  fathers' 
iirm  by  death,  ke[)t  up  the  same  business,  under  the  same 
style  of  (Ircen  ami  Walker;  and  this  fact  undoubtedly  ex- 
plains the  drift  of  the  Journal  iind  this  little  i)amphlet. 

The  almanac  bears  on  the  title-i)age  the  name  of  William 
Nadir  as  the  author,  and  to  it  are  a[)[)en(led  the  mysterious  U't- 
ters  L.  X.  (^.  It  is  well  known  that  this  name  was  the  pseu- 
donym of  Dr.  William  Douglass,  a  Scotchman  by  birth,  who 
catne  to  Boston  in  the  early  days  of  his  professional  career. 
He  had  received  his  medical  instruction  in  Paris  and  Leyden, 
and  was  a  man  of  good  education  and  man}*  accomplishments, 

*  llollantrs  History  of  Western  Massaclmsetts,  vol.  ii.  pp.  382,  410. 


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though  oF  u  pcfculiiir  disposition  that  kept  him  coiitiiiiiiilly  in 
controvei-sy.  It  was  wittily  saitl  of  Iiini  oncu  that  he  was 
always  positive;  and  sonietinies  accurate.  IFc  was  well 
veised  in  tiie  natural  sciences,  and  much  interested  in  astron- 
omy. Dr.  Douj^lass  op{)ost!d  strenuously,  hoth  by  tctnj^ue 
and  pen,  the  introduction  of  small-pox  inoculation,  though 
he  lived  to  modify  his  views  nn  this  subject.  He  took  up 
Ins  al)ode  at  Host(jn  in  the  year  17 IH,  at  which  time  he  was 
the  only  physician  here  who  had  recieived  tin;  Doctorate  of 
Medicine. 

lie  writes,  under  (hite  of  Feb.  'JO,  1720-21,  to  his  com- 
patriot, Dr.  CadwalhuUn-  ('olden,  who  had  settled  at  New 
York,  also  in  the  year  171H  :  — 

"You  coinphiiii  (if  tlio  priicticc  of  IMiysick  l)t'iii<i  tniderviiliifd  in 
your  )»arts  uiid  with  rciison  ;  we  nn'  not  luucli  Ixfttcr  in  tliiit  respect  in 
this  place;  we  jilmund  with  I'ractilioners,  tliouiili  no  oilier  jfra<liiale 
tliaii  myself,  wo  liav((  fourteen  Apotiieeary  sliop«  in  IJoston  ;  all  our 
J^raetitioners  dispense  their  own   medicines."* 

Dr.  Doughiss  appears  to  iiave  been  fairly  successful  as  a 
pliysician,  and  in  a  little  more  than  two  years  after  the  date 
of  this  letter  he  was  tl»e  owner  of  a  large  tract  of  hmd  in 
Worcester  (^ounty,  which  is  now  included  within  the  limits 
of  Douglas, — a  town  named  after  him,  though  the  iiiuil  x  is 
dropped.  In  the  year  17-5.")  he  was  one  of  a  small  number 
of  persons  who  formed  a  medical  society  in  Boston,  the  iirst 
association  of  the  kind  in  the  eouittry. 

In  a  letter  written  by  him  to  the  assessors  of  the  town  oi 
Boston,  and  dated  April  28,  1747,  he  says:  — 

"  Further  I  may  observe  to  you  tliat  I  am  or  Soon  must  he  in  the 
Decline  of  Human  life:  therelbre  do  not  endeavor  to  increase  my 
Fortune,  liaviiiij;  no  family  to  provide  for:  hut  sliall  yearly  lessen  it,  Iiy 
dooiiig  charities  in  my  life  tiiut;  liy  donations  and  bounties."  t 

I  have  been  thus  explicit  with  Dr.  Douglass's  aflUirs  in 
order  to  show  that  it  is  not  improbable  that  lit;  was  the  "-cer- 
tain gentleman  of  the  town  of  Boston,"  alluded  to  in  the 
printed  Journal  of  the  House  of  I{ei)resentatives,  July  7, 
1789,  and  about  whom  a  ([uery  was  raised  by  our  Corre- 
sponding Member,  Mi'.  Moore,  of  New  York,  in  a  letter  to 
the  President  of  this  Society, J  written  two  years  ago. 


*  4  Miiss.  Hist.  Coll.,  vol.  ii.  p.  ir,4. 

t  The  Boston  Medical  »iul  Surgical  Journal,  vol.  civ.  p.  538;  June  8,  1881. 

}  Procceilings,  vol.  xix.  j).  250. 


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The  entry  in  the  Joiirniil  is  as  follows  :  — 

"Information  heiny  jjivon  to  the  IIous(i  liy  the  M«!ml)or  from  Wor- 
cester, that  a  certain  <i(Mitl)-iiiun  of  iIh;  Tosvii  of  ItoNtoii,  [was]  wi-li 
tlisposol  for  tlic  Kiifoiini^M'iiKMit  and  Sii|)port  of  a  ProftJHMorof  I'liysick 
within  tliiH  I'rovincc,  an<l  for  that  (rood  l'in'[)OKe  would  ('h«-arfiiily  con- 
trihiite  out  of  liis  own  Kstato  u  ('onsi(U'ral)k'  Sum  of  Money,  |irovid(Ml 
this  Court  will  join  therein  in  inaluny  a  Grant  of  Lands,  or  otherwise 
estahlisli  a  ^ood  Fund  for  the  valuable  Knds  aforesaid  ;  and  tlu^  sam(' 
beinj;  eonsicU'red  ; 

''•Ordervil,  That  flu!  miunhers  of  Boston,  Charlestown,  Roxhury,  ami 
Chelsea  he  a  Committee  to  treat  with  the  (icntleman,  hear  him  on  his 
Proposals,  atid  rep»trt  their  Opinion  »»f  what  may  be  proper  to  ■  •:;  done 
for  the  encouragement  of  so  good  u  Soheme." 

The  member  frotn  Worcester  who  hroufjlit  tlie  suhjotit  he- 
fore  the  House  was  Colonel  John  Chiiiuller,  and  as  Dr.  Doug- 
lass was  a  larcje  land-owner  in  Worcester  (bounty  it  is  not 
unlikely  that  Colonel  Chandler  knew  him  personally.  Tliis 
fact,  I  am  aware,  has  hut  little  weight,  hut  I  mention  it  for 
what  it  is  worth  ;  and  in  IIk;  ahsence  of  positive  testimony  it 
would  seem  as  ))rol)al)le  as  not,  that  Dr.  Douglass  was  the 
"certain  gentleman  of  the  town  of  IJoston,"  who  olVertnl  to 
endow  a  medical  jtrofessorship  at  that  time.  The  olVer,  how- 
ever, d(»es  not  seem  to  iiavc  been  accepted,  as  no  further  trace 
of  it  is  foun<l  in  the  proceedings  of  the  House,  or  elsewhere. 
This  attempt  is  by  no  means  the  earliest  one  in  Massachusetts 
to  promote  medical  ediuiation,  as  Mr.  Moore  sui)poses.  Nearly 
a  century  before  this  time  (Jilcs  Firmin,  a  man  learned  in  medi- 
cine, had  given  instruction  in  this  branch  of  science.  The  apos- 
tle Kliot,  under  date  of  Sept.  'J4,  KI47,  writes  to  Mr.  Sliei)ard, 
the  minister  of  Cambridge,  and  expresses  the  desire  that  — 

"Our  young  Students  in  I'hysick  may  be  trained  up  better  than  yet 
they  bee,  who  ha\  »^  onely  theoreticall  knowledge,  and  are  forced  to  fall 
to  practise  before  ever  they  saw  an  AiuUomy  made,  or  duely  trained  up 
in  making  experiments,  for  we  never  had  but  one  Anatomy  in  the 
Couiurey,  which  JNIr.  iHli's  Firman  (now  in  England)  did  make  and 
read  upon  very  well,  but  no  more  of  that  now."  * 

An  anatomy  is  the  old  name  for  a  skeleton ;  and  Mr.  Firmin 
may  be  considered,  in  })oint  of  time,  the  first  medical  lecturer 
in  tlie  country.  His  instruction,  doubtless,  was  crude,  and 
comprised  little  more  than  informal  talks  about  the  dry  bones 
before  him  ;  but  even  this  was  a  great  hel{)  to  the  learners.  At 
any  rate,  it  seems  to  have  excited  an  interest  in  the  subject ;  for 

*  3  Mass.  Hist.  Coll.,  vol.  iv.  p.  67 


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tho  recoiiinieiulutioii  is  iiiadtt  at  tliu  Hossioii  of  the  (iunenil 
Court,  lu'^inniiif;  Oct.  27,  1047,  a  low  weeks  later  than  tho 
date  oF  Eliot's  letter,  that  — 

''  We  coiiccivo  it  very  iiecessury  y'  such  as  Htixlles  pliysick,  or  clii- 
nirj^cry  may  have  lilicrty  to  n-ailf  aiii»t(»iiiy  &  to  aiiotomizf  oacc  in 
foiiit'  yeares  some  iiiulel'aclo''  in  case  tlieie  bu  such  as  the  Coarte  shall 
alow  of."  * 

Kdward  Jolmsoii,  in  his  "  Wonder-Working'  I'rovideiM^e  " 
(Loinlon,  lt).*)4),  written  about  the  year  !♦>")(),  deserihes  Har- 
vard College  at  a  period  near  that  time,  and  says  that  "  some 
help  hath  heeu  had  from  hence  in  the  study  of  IMiysiek  " 
(page  lt'>")).  It  is  very  likely  that  ('ambridge  was  the  place 
where  (liles  Firmin  had  "'read  upon"  or  lectured  on  his 
skeleton. 

Even  much  earlier  than  this,  at  the  very  planting  of  the 
Colony,  attention  had  been  given  to  the  need  of  physicians 
and  the  importance  of  medical  knowledge.  In  the  lirst  gen- 
eral letter  of  instruction  to(iovernor  Kndicott  and  his  Council, 
from  th(!  (lovernor  and  Deputy  (»f  the  New  England  Couj- 
pany,  dated  (Jraves«Mid,  April  17,  lG:i9,  it  is  written, — 

'*  Wee  liauc  entertained  Lambert  Wilson,  Cliirur^fion  to  reniaine 
[with]  yo"  in  the  service  of  the  plantaeon,  w"'  wlioui  wee  are  aj^reed 
that  bee?  shall  serve  this  C<iin|»ani(!  and  tlu?  other  l'lant«M-8  tlial  li[vej 


|»ly  himself  to  cure 
bee  sbalbt!  directed 
I]  pticuler  iiccomptrt 


in  the  I'bmtacon  for  ."i  yeares,  und  in  that  tynie,  a 
but  also  for  tht;  Indians,  as  from  tyme  to  ty[me 
not  only  of  such  as  came  from  hence  for  the  liefiiill  an 
by  yo'selfe  o"^  yo''  successo''  iVc  the  rest  of  the  ("(tuncell;  And  more- 
over hee  is  to  educate  «&  instruct  in  bis  Art  one  or  more  youths,  such 
as  yo"  and  the  said  Counccll  sb!il[l]  appoint  that  may  bee  belpfull  to 
him  and  if  occasion  serve  succeetl  liim  in  the  IMantacon.  vv'''  youth  or 
youths  fitt  to  learn  that  pfession  lett  bet;  placed  w"'  him,  of  w'''  M' 
IIuf»essoiis  8omu>  if  bis  flitber  approut;  tberof  may  i)ee  one,  the;  rather 
because  hee  h|atb]  bin  trayned  vp  in  litteraturc,  but  if  not  lice  then  such 
other  as  yo"  shall  iudg  most  fittest  &c."t 

Here  we  have  the  germs  of  a  medical  school,  which,  to  be 
sure,  did  not  fructify  at  once.  Hut  who  shall  say  that  they 
were  not  fostered  and  kept  alive  during  this  long  series  of 
years,  in  a  regular  line  of  descent,  umler  the  various  and 
varying  fortunes  of  the  Colony  and  Province,  and  tinally  de- 
veloped into  the  noble  institution  known  to-day  as  the  Har- 
vard Medical  School  ?     Whatever  other  responsibilities  may 

*  (ieiieral  Court  Kecords,  vol,  ii.  p.  170. 
t  iSutfolk  Deeds,  lib.  i.  p.  xii. 


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rest  upon  the  slioiilders  of  the  tbunders  of  Massachusetts,  or 
wliatever  other  faults  may  be  charged  to  their  account,  it  can- 
not be  said  that  they  were  unmindful,  in  theory  at  least,  of 
the  libeial  benefits  that  accrue  from  the  school  of  rational 
medicine. 


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